on Thu, Feb. 15, 2007email thisprint

thisLunch benefit for ALS studies Hialeah performer Katharine Cue will debut a new song, I Give You My Courage, in tribute to those who are struggling with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) at 10 a.m. Saturday during a luncheon fundraiser aboard the Holland American cruise ship MS Zuiderdam, docked at Port Everglades.

Cue, 19, a longtime participant of the city's cultural arts program and a former Miss Teen Hialeah, said she was touched by the story of a family acquaintance suffering with ALS.

The Next Big Star grand champion and Star Search finalist was inspired by the man and his family and wrote a ballad encouraging those with the illness not to give up hope.

More than 200 families touched by ALS will attend the luncheon, which is part of a national fundraising campaign to support the search for treatment of ALS.
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